Oct 23, 2023 12:14:00

'Amazon Deliveryman's Pee' is sold as an energy drink and ranks #1 on Amazon's bestseller

It became a hot topic

that Amazon's delivery staff were so busy that they urinated in plastic bottles . Amazon initially claimed that the plastic bottle pee issue was untrue , but later had topublicly apologize . An outrageous situation is occurring in which Amazon's delivery staff picks up ``plastic bottles containing pee'' thrown away, sells them on Amazon's marketplace, and wins the number 1 bestseller spot.

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Outside Amazon's distribution center in Glendale, California, there are multiple plastic bottles containing urine thrown away by delivery workers. It has been pointed out that the reason why Amazon drivers pee in plastic bottles and throw them away is because the delivery targets imposed by Amazon on delivery drivers are so harsh that they don't have time to take toilet breaks. Amazon has officially apologized for the issue, but it seems that you can still find 'pee in plastic bottles' around delivery locations.

Writer Uber Butler focused on Amazon's plastic bottle pee problem. He is known for turning a frozen food restaurant into London's number one restaurant, with the highest rating on TripAdvisor . Mr. Butler has created a documentary program, `` The Great Amazon Heist '', which is distributed on Channel 4 in the UK, in which Mr. Butler himself infiltrates Amazon's largest fulfillment center in the UK. , which conveys the conditions faced by workers here.

One of the Amazon delivery workers that Mr. Butler met during the interviews he conducted to create this documentary program was a person who worked as a professional soccer player in El Salvador. He works as an Amazon delivery worker in Los Angeles, and says of the plastic bottle peeing problem, ``Honestly, this kind of behavior degrades human dignity.''

Still, ``I have to do it because I have no other choice. People who work at a slow pace end up getting fired,'' he said, adding that he has no choice but to pee in plastic bottles to meet Amazon's delivery targets. I made it clear that I don't have one. Another delivery manager confirmed that the plastic bottles found outside the fulfillment center had been thrown away by the delivery staff, saying, ``Don't throw away the plastic bottles filled with urine, leave them in the car.'' There is a system in place where you can earn points accordingly.'

Amazon delivery driver collects urine in a plastic bottle in his car

As part of The Great Amazon Heist, Butler interviews Amazon delivery drivers from around the world, including the UK, Italy, and the US. However, Butler points out that the problems facing Amazon delivery workers are the same in every country. Despite the widespread publicity surrounding Amazon's plastic bottle pee problem, the problem remains unresolved, so Butler decided to list the plastic bottle pee on Amazon's marketplace and promote it as a number one bestseller. It seems that he came up with this.

So, Mr. Butler first headed to Amazon's fulfillment center in the suburbs of Tilbury, Essex, England, and collected urine in plastic bottles. They then turn to energy drinks as a product that can be sold quickly without much scrutiny. Together with a friend who is a writer and visual artist, he thought of a product name for the energy drink version of pee in a plastic bottle, and came up with the idea of ``Release Energy.''

He then came up with phrases for the product, such as ``The world's first fully reusable energy drink,'' ``Once you've finished drinking the contents, you can just refill it,'' and ``Unlimited refills.'' The photo below shows an energy drink that imitates ``pee in a plastic bottle thrown away by an Amazon delivery person'' that was created in this way.

The Release Energy label is as follows. Ingredients include urea and uric acid.

Release Energy, the energy drink created in this way, is listed on Amazon's marketplace. Release Energy initially listed it in the ``refillable pump dispenser'' category, and the product description and photos indicated that it was a drink, and apparently it was an Amazon delivery person's urine. After a while, Butler explains, Amazon's algorithm automatically moved Release Energy into the energy drinks category.

Mr. Butler seems to have thought, ``If we could move this to the ``bitter lemon beverage'' category, where there was less competition, we might be able to make this the number one bestseller,'' but he was unable to change the category. It seems like it is. Butler said he contacted various departments but was unable to change the category, and when he was about to give up, he sent an email to Amazon UK management posing as a small business owner and requested that the category be changed. Mr. As a result of this interaction, Release Energy was able to successfully move into the bitter lemon beverage category.

It is also said that Mr. Butler tried to persuade his acquaintances to purchase Release Energy. Release Energy is 1 pound (about 180 yen) each. At first, he had acquaintances buy the product and post reviews, but before he knew it, he was selling Release Energy to real customers. However, since Release Energy is not an ``urine imitation energy drink'' but real urine, orders from general customers have been canceled.

Still, Release Energy has managed to become the number one bestseller in the bitter lemon beverage category.

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